Comic Life
From PBL Tech
Comic Life is an desktop publishing application for both Macintosh OS X and for Windows. The program is designed to create comic strips using your photographs or other images.
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[edit] Creating Comic Pages
Comic Life is very easy and fun to use. It contains all the tools needed to create professional looking comic pages. Design pages using fonts specifically designed for comic titles, many varieties of speech and thought bubbles, and creative captions. You can literally use any kind of images you can digitize for your comic. Change any image or text by selecting it, and clicking on the "Style" button on the tool bar along the top. You can make further changes by using the "Attributes" tab in the Resource Area on the right-hand side of the page.
Comic Life (Deluxe Edition) has a great variety of page templates with all kinds of frames that you can conveniently fill with images, text and color. You can also have a choice of creating pages with set grids.
Students will be sure to convert all kinds of information into fun comic book pages very quickly!
[edit] Exporting Pages
You have created your Comic Life masterpiece. Saving as a Comic Life document will allow only other Mac users with Comic Life to see it. How do you get the world to see it? Export the file!
- Go to the File menu and select Export ->
On Apple Macintosh computers, Comic Life exports to PDF, HTML, iPhoto, iWeb, and QuickTime and image files such as TIFF, GIF, JPEG, and PNG.
On computers running Microsoft Windows, Comic Life exports to HTML and AVI files. It exports to BMP, JPEG and GIF files. Comic life can export to PDF files with CutePDF
Your comic pages will play automatically like a slide show if you export to AVI or QuickTime.
A tip for those who want to use their comic pages in iMovie or Movie Maker, change the orientation of your comic pages from vertical to horizontal in the Preferences. In this way, your pages will fit the movie screen better.
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